Features

The features of freesound are designed to make the sound files on the website easy to index, search, and browse. The Sampling Plus License permits the sampling and/or transformation of all the sounds on the site to create derivative works, even for profit (as long as they are not used to advertise an unrelated product.) Verbatim copying is also permitted. Since the Sampling Plus License stipulates that the authors of the original work must be credited in the derivative work, the site is capable of automatically generating an attribution list to make this easier.

Software Architecture

The Freesound platform is based on technology developed by the Music Technology Group of Pompeu Fabra University.